2012 Photographic Competition

Following on from the success of last year’s competition, we announced in the January 2012 edition of Steaming that we would run the competition again in a similar format. Based on the entry levels of last year, the dead line was set for the end of June to enable plenty of time to prepare for the winning entries to be exhibited at the Great Dorset Steam Fair.

As the dead line approached, we only had 8 individual members enter some or all of the categories, so the selection was much reduced on last year. However the quality of work remained high which gave the judges something to ponder over.

The judging was carried out by three well known and highly regarded traction engine photographers, namely Paul Stratford, Malcolm Ranieri, and Dick Blenkinsop,
I would like to thank them all for taking the time to do this for us, but I do know they all enjoyed the task and there were no arguments!
In fact they were unanimous when it came to choosing the winners.

As the entry level was much lower than last year, it seems only right to award prizes to the category winners and the overall competition winner. However we still plan to exhibit the winning entries in the Trust’s marquee at GDSF along with a selection of the other entries, some of which were commended but narrowly missed winning an award.

Winners have already been notified, but the overall winner will be announced at the Trust’s AGM in November where the John Cook Memorial Trophy will be presented.

We would like to thank all those who took part and allowed us to see their excellent work, it really is much appreciated. For all those who thought about entering but didn’t, please do so next time as we very much hope to be able to develop this competition further, but can only do so with your support.